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Last year's Super Five lived up to the honor

Each member of last year's Courier-Journal Super Five — Andrew Wiggins, Julius Randle, Aaron Gordon, Jabari Parker and Andrew Harrison — left his mark on college basketball as a freshman in the 2013-14 season, and four of them already are headed to the NBA draft.

Each member of last year's Courier-Journal Super Five — Andrew Wiggins, Julius Randle, Aaron Gordon, Jabari Parker and Andrew Harrison — left his mark on college basketball as a freshman in the 2013-14 season, and four of them already are headed to the NBA draft.

Kansas' Wiggins, Kentucky's Randle, Arizona's Gordon and Duke's Parker were all considered near-locks to be one-and-done college players before the season, and they lived up to the billing. All four are now projected as top-10 picks in the June draft.

Among the Super Five, only Kentucky's Harrison, the top point guard in the 2013 class, will return for his sophomore year, and he and twin Aaron, who was a Super Five second-teamer, nearly went pro, too, after being projected as late first-round or early second-round selections.

Parker was a consensus first-team All-American and won the USBWA's Wayman Tisdale Award as the nation's top freshman after averaging 19.1 points and 8.7 rebounds per game.

Wiggins, a second-team Associated Press All-American and the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, averaged 17.1 points and set Kansas' freshman scoring record.

Randle, a third-team AP All-American and the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year, led the national runner-up Wildcats in scoring (15 ppg) and rebounding (10.4) and broke UK's freshman record for rebounds. His 24 double-doubles were the most in the country and the second-most in college basketball history by a freshman.

Gordon, the Pacific-12 Freshman of the Year, averaged 12.4 points and eight rebounds and broke Arizona's record for rebounds by a freshman.

Andrew Harrison averaged 10.9 points and four assists and hit his stride late in the season, helping key the Wildcats' surprising NCAA Tournament run.